-Start with a simple situation:
-
- case x# of ===> e[x#/y#]
- y# -> e
-
-(when x#, y# are of primitive type, of course). We can't (in general)
-do this for algebraic cases, because we might turn bottom into
-non-bottom!
-
-Actually, we generalise this idea to look for a case where we're
-scrutinising a variable, and we know that only the default case can
-match. For example:
-\begin{verbatim}
- case x of
- 0# -> ...
- other -> ...(case x of
- 0# -> ...
- other -> ...) ...
-\end{code}
-Here the inner case can be eliminated. This really only shows up in
-eliminating error-checking code.
-
-We also make sure that we deal with this very common case:
-
- case e of
- x -> ...x...
-
-Here we are using the case as a strict let; if x is used only once
-then we want to inline it. We have to be careful that this doesn't
-make the program terminate when it would have diverged before, so we
-check that
- - x is used strictly, or
- - e is already evaluated (it may so if e is a variable)
-
-Lastly, we generalise the transformation to handle this:
-
- case e of ===> r
- True -> r
- False -> r
-
-We only do this for very cheaply compared r's (constructors, literals
-and variables). If pedantic bottoms is on, we only do it when the
-scrutinee is a PrimOp which can't fail.
-
-We do it *here*, looking at un-simplified alternatives, because we
-have to check that r doesn't mention the variables bound by the
-pattern in each alternative, so the binder-info is rather useful.
-
-So the case-elimination algorithm is:
-
- 1. Eliminate alternatives which can't match
-
- 2. Check whether all the remaining alternatives
- (a) do not mention in their rhs any of the variables bound in their pattern
- and (b) have equal rhss
-
- 3. Check we can safely ditch the case:
- * PedanticBottoms is off,
- or * the scrutinee is an already-evaluated variable
- or * the scrutinee is a primop which is ok for speculation
- -- ie we want to preserve divide-by-zero errors, and
- -- calls to error itself!
-
- or * [Prim cases] the scrutinee is a primitive variable
-
- or * [Alg cases] the scrutinee is a variable and
- either * the rhs is the same variable
- (eg case x of C a b -> x ===> x)
- or * there is only one alternative, the default alternative,
- and the binder is used strictly in its scope.
- [NB this is helped by the "use default binder where
- possible" transformation; see below.]
-
-
-If so, then we can replace the case with one of the rhss.
-
-Further notes about case elimination
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Consider: test :: Integer -> IO ()
- test = print
-
-Turns out that this compiles to:
- Print.test
- = \ eta :: Integer
- eta1 :: State# RealWorld ->
- case PrelNum.< eta PrelNum.zeroInteger of wild { __DEFAULT ->
- case hPutStr stdout
- (PrelNum.jtos eta ($w[] @ Char))
- eta1
- of wild1 { (# new_s, a4 #) -> PrelIO.lvl23 new_s }}
-
-Notice the strange '<' which has no effect at all. This is a funny one.
-It started like this:
-
-f x y = if x < 0 then jtos x
- else if y==0 then "" else jtos x
-
-At a particular call site we have (f v 1). So we inline to get
-
- if v < 0 then jtos x
- else if 1==0 then "" else jtos x
-
-Now simplify the 1==0 conditional:
-
- if v<0 then jtos v else jtos v
-
-Now common-up the two branches of the case:
-
- case (v<0) of DEFAULT -> jtos v
-
-Why don't we drop the case? Because it's strict in v. It's technically
-wrong to drop even unnecessary evaluations, and in practice they
-may be a result of 'seq' so we *definitely* don't want to drop those.
-I don't really know how to improve this situation.
-
-
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